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County Characteristics, 2000-2007 [United States] (ICPSR 20660)

Principal Investigator(s):
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Summary:

This file contains an array of county characteristics by
which researchers can investigate contextual influences at the county
level. Included are population size and the components of population
change during 2000-2005 and a wide range of characteristics on or
about 2005: (1) population by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, (2)
labor force size and unemployment, (3) personal income, (4) earnings
and employment by industry, (5) land surface form topography, (6)
climate, (7) government revenue and expenditures, (8) crimes reported
to police, (9) presidential election results (10) housing authorized
by building permits, (11) Medicare enrollment, and (12) health
profession shortage areas.

This file contains an array of county characteristics by
which researchers can investigate contextual influences at the county
level. Included are population size and the components of population
change during 2000-2005 and a wide range of characteristics on or
about 2005: (1) population by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, (2)
labor force size and unemployment, (3) personal income, (4) earnings
and employment by industry, (5) land surface form topography, (6)
climate, (7) government revenue and expenditures, (8) crimes reported
to police, (9) presidential election results (10) housing authorized
by building permits, (11) Medicare enrollment, and (12) health
profession shortage areas.

Access Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public.
Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. County Characteristics, 2000-2007 [United States]. ICPSR20660-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-01-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20660.v2

Methodology

Data Source:

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census,
Population Estimates Program. CO-EST2005-alldata: County Population
Estimates and Estimated Components of Change: April 1, 2000, to July
1, 2005. March 16, 2006.

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census,
Population Division. Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) and Combined
Statistical Areas (CSAs), December 2005. Internet release date January
19, 2006. Last revised June 14, 2006.

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, and
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. CENSUS
OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 2000 [UNITED STATES]: SELECTED SUBSETS FROM
SUMMARY FILE 3 [Computer file]. ICPSR13402-v2. Washington, DC:
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, and Ann Arbor, MI:
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
[producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. DS12 (Counties,
Tables P1-P160I Only).

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census,
Population Estimates Program. CO-EST2005-alldata: County Population
Estimates and Estimated Components of Change: April 1, 2000 to July 1,
2005. March 16, 2006.

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
Census. Population Estimates Program. HU-EST2005-[ST_FIPS]: Housing
Unit Estimates for Counties of [ST_FIPS]: April 1, 2000 to July 1,
2005. August 21, 2006.

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
Census. Population Estimates Program. CC-EST2005-agesex-[ST_FIPS]:
Annual Estimates of the Population by Selected Age Groups and Sex for
Counties in [STATE]: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005. August 4, 2006.

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census,
Population Estimates Program. CC-EST2005-6RACE-[ST_FIPS]: County
Population Estimates with Sex, 6 Race Groups (5 Race Alone and One
Group with Two or More Race Groups) and Hispanic Origin. August 4,
2006. (One data file per state.)

U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) Program. Labor Force Data by
County, 2005 Annual Averages. No date given. Accessed September 11,
2007.

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research
Service. Final 2004 County Typology Codes. August 26, 2004.

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research
Service. 2003 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes. August 2003.

U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the
Census. Manufacturing and Construction Division, Residential
Construction Branch. CO2005A.txt. 2005 Annual County Level Residential
Building Permit Statistics. No date given. Received from the Census
Bureau on June 18, 2007.

U.S. Department of Health and Social Services. Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Medicare Aged and Disabled by
State and County as of July 1, 2003 (County03.TXT). No date
given. Accessed June 20, 2007.

United States Department of Health and Social
Services. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. County to CBSA
crosswalk file (NPRM2008_xwalk_file.xls). No date given. Accessed June
20, 2007.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 2007-10-24

Version History:

2008-01-24 A number of minor edits were made to the
codebook, none of which substantially affected the variable
descriptions.